More tools for WPF 4 application development

You might have heard a lot of buzz about the recent release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. But what you might not have heard is that a lot of the features in the new tools work just as well for developing a WPF application! Here’s some of the features you might find interesting:

When you are working with styles, you now get intellisense based on the target type (yay!)

“Go To Value Definition” feature that will take you to where style being applied is defined.

Drag and drop data sources to create resources

Right-click context menu on Grid design that lets you add and remove rows and columns

Go here for the download and see the blog post by Mark Wilson-Thomas for way more details.

Also, the Performance Suite is now available for WPF 4 developers. Now you can use all the great profiling tools you loved for 3.5 with your 4 app. See Jossef Goldberg’s blog post for details.